in history. and very. much he wrote the legend was simply a human being who was neil armstrong. was his destiny starts july 20th on t.w. . at one point it was going to be that cape cod would be the 1st city in the world run out of water. we had a one in 400 year drop off to a very rare occurrence so this drought came in an unexpected way and we were not prepared for it certainly not its extremity. every

time there was the car before it with it with it with it with another music only raise the flag you see there's a problem i'd national please help national kind with some excuse the. water's been a weapon and without any question it got between the ruling african national congress and the democratic alliance. has taken modes and see action and that action into 2 things just for when taishan a close to space to do more management 3 g. seems a lot of move. the wind is no order the children going to think about money we must make a way you must always make good you can't tell when the government could go with the overweight as some people don't want to you must go see where you can find it with the. you and kicking.

cape town mitchell's plane is one of the many impoverished townships around the south african city it's plagued by high unemployment and crime but in the past few years the most urgent issue has been the water shortage. say more than any. and every saturday a cold and her youngest daughter go from door to door selling their baked goods to hear the concerns of their neighbors and customers this is one of the better off areas. to. do it we've.

never. really needed a small houses have running water and recently installed water meters either that or. can you see there's is the new a new order the evades now the older ones who plays with this new wealth they don't think there's no unique inches on your property before they put it in they just put it in. or not they don't know what they want to do that's about the things that's wise and that it does make them. orderly devices that then work it doesn't work because now there we have this what they need this installed in our area is always problems with the water always problem and i don't think that's fair. take given. the persistent drought over the past several years created panic. the residents of

mitchell's plane feared the city authorities would turn off their taps 1st i've. toyed with it but this. is the same amount of work that they give out people company to the other one t.d.'s they've got pools they've got servants they've got a huge homes that needs to be marked windows needs to be cleaned they go jogging and then they need to come shower computor that i don't believe but i think that we are putting at the end of the still. according to the united nations around 4000000000 people worldwide experience severe water scarcity . cape town look to be the 1st major city to run out of water due to climate change water levels in the reservoirs that supply 99 percent of the areas water sank after the drought began in 2015. first of all there is no doubt that we are

in a climate disrupting period and these last 3 and a half years of below average well below average rainfall suggests that there's something much more dramatic happening to our weather systems then anywhere near the norm and we've got to look to climate change as one of those factors that is driving that with the variability. facing a looming humanitarian disaster city officials scramble to limit the damage. the game skiddy when it didn't of rain and the new dam levels started dropping. and you almost feel hopeless now you city many times i cannot allow a well run setting up the water. to 4000000 residents were acutely threatened there were fears of impending epidemics of riots. and the economic breakdown of the

region as water levels continue to sink local authorities felt they had to act. when we asked the national government to dictate a k. plan that the sauce that. and when they were very slow would do we know that i used my local policy as the mayor to declare cape town a disaster. for years hydrology experts had warned that the cape town urgently needed to find backup water reserves but now it was too late the city's crisis management team decided it would have to turn off the taps. and so in a period of about a year being in the sport i don't think that we have ever implemented as many new. restriction. often. actions because in my period of of being with and. we've had to just tighten the restrictions in response to

the dropping of devil's. residence were restricted to 50 liters of water per day in europe by comparison people use an average of 30 leaders a day just to flush the toilet in cape town people without access to enough water to line up at public tap stations. for some enterprising locals the crisis was a business opportunity the so-called printers offer a water delivery to households whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa this was a dry run for daisy the ominous day when the city would turn off the municipal taps residents without personal access to water through wells or bore holes would get their daily allotments like this. never did i think that one day at my age to day that i have to trannie what. the. critics say that if officials had taken the threat of climate change seriously and

found new water sources early on people swimming pools would not be empty but imposing strict limits was not enough the city took more drastic measures and published household usage online on a city water map. the lighter green dots indicate higher usage the city also set up a call center where citizens can report restriction offenses. we've done naming and shaming for other types of. things within the city. and at that point in time that is probably the most impactful way. bring attention to the need that. needs to reduce their consumption then we have insights to how much choosing. the fear of public scrutiny had an effect water usage in cape town dropped from $1200000000.00 to just 500000000 liters per day.

homes in durban ville an affluent and mainly white suburb of cape town are also listed people here don't want to be exposed as water wasters at least not. very good. stuff this is the 2nd shout. to keep their municipal water usage down the tropic family collects the runoff from the shower. waste and. through their. new drinking national toilets. but the wealthy can afford to buy bottled drinking water which helps them stay under the published 50 leader limit.

so basically this is a box which has become a storage space for our water i wish we had about 200 bottles of water which is a use for cooking and drinking. but it was harder. to get a little of it from from the gallons to yeah but it was exhausted us quite a bit already. if you don't have to acknowledge the family. just to become more aware of exactly how much was we are actually using. cooking now we use the pot of water drinking we use bottled water. you know when we pour the water bottles for the kids to take to school we. fall to. cape town is a relatively wealthy city a popular tourist destination which produces nearly 10 percent of south africa's

g.d.p. concerns are growing but if the city can't guarantee its water supply the tourists will stay away and investors will leave putting a damper on the flourishing economy. and that would kill the jobs that are desperately needed especially in the townships. here around 70 percent of people are unemployed with no social welfare support. no matter how much doris's friend mfi does a single mother getting by with children is hard enough and recently her problems have been compounded by excessive water bills. this i walked up all that is to be 7500. $0.93 so i don't understand why is it that people have seen these polls and the poll that they are giving us it's way too high for our people to play and it's not only

bible he's a lot of other people has. to put paradoxically the higher bills are due in part to keep efforts to save water reduced usage meant reduced revenues a shortfall of the equivalent of hundreds of millions of euros so the city imposed higher punitive tariffs. only control you have usually private people very for you know squeezing profit people to use listen but because you're doing that now you revenue stream to the city suddenly suddenly is drastically reduced and therefore you have to say well we force you decide when it's good to save but our revenues are not destroyed so we have to live in a special drought check so we are punishing you for saving. in the townships the higher water bills are often due to leaks and the aging pipes systems. this is a water management device that has been leaking this people's there's been leaking

for months now and the beginning of a time out to fix them so this is all water that's been that i mean the way as you can see that's one that i'm going away. so does what the management device it weighs more water than what it saves. and if there's so what major traces of water then why don't the city have to plan time out to fix. because residents like my feet and can't pay their bills the city reprogrammed the water meters to cap supply at 350 liters per day but this does not take into account the fact that sometimes there are more than 10 people living in a single household. the other than my son also for me twice in the work in fact. couldn't explain to me why it was my will do most of the day and i have to ask my neighbor to bring me some water sort of like him.

and the city devised a further step to throttle water use asking people to pay for water in advance. to. people is going to die but to fight a war and at that one they don't come to me and. i don't know what that because i will in no way in what the right. how can people in communities fight a war when it's your constitutional right. but they are there to save them from a running out of war definitely. the people of. their relationship. do you think. that is how we survive.

but people in cape town say they're tired of struggling and paying for the politicians mistakes. that. we have but it's all of us. i no longer use my dishwasher. and i wear my clothes a lot longer. so i don't change my clothes as often i must be honest you know i'm i'm tired of the city and kept on pushing the men for almost 50 beats a lot and this being the new normal i don't want to live the way i am now carrying buckets. with the owner of the salon she says life and that of his 50 employees under threat. my business is everything to me i didn't have a fallback i didn't have it. is a plan b. running out of water would spiritually mean that we would have to shut shop so it's

not a question to get attention we're wonderful city we're down to. 60 leaders per person per day and we can be proud of that without realizing what that's done to business i can tell you of companies right now busy relocating by saying listen if this is the future of the city we can all be business too. it's been 25 years since the election of nelson mandela and his african national congress the a.n.c. party and apartheid a new era began in south africa with a new constitution that guarantees citizens the right to sufficient water and places the responsibility for realizing that right in the hands of the state some people believe that it's contributed to cape town's water crisis. how mystics may

have had a role but i think the real problem was the national treasury said to the department of water says you're not getting any more money. and they didn't have the money because you said a lot of it's have been squandered. the entire world has supported black economic empowerment in south africa and yes it is necessary to find a risk that you shouldn't for the sins of the past but what people also have to recognize is that like a demonic empowerment has just become a fig leaf to cover corruption it sounds moral it sounds good people don't want to be against it but it really is just a number 11 high end which a lot of corruption is here. cape town and the western cape province are controlled by the democratic alliance or da party while the national government is in the hands of the a.n.c. . for years the da and the women who occupied top posts in cape town were an irritant to president jacob zuma who stepped down in the face of corruption allegations in 2018. the information that i have is that in 20.

3 g. 13 there was a meeting held and that meeting was held in the bottom mineral resources and i have a source in that meeting that they gave me the engine of this meeting and in that meeting the discussion watch. how do we deal with helen zille or how do we deal with with with additional because patricia below was blowing the whistle on the arms deal and helen zille or had just be been appointed the premier and she was making a huge noise about the sit back but i so i depute of time in the bottom when rules of decision was made to simply witness water and they decided at that point in time that they going to turn water into a tour in into a weapon to teach their teacher did the da listen to particularly those 2 to one. of the political games at the cost of ordinary citizens after zoomers resignation the cabinet was reshuffled. the new minister of water and sanitation

facing the media. what do you tell people who blame the national government for the crisis in cape town. you know does formalistic you know it does is a formalistic approach that sort of speaks to what i'm just at the institutional you know when you emphasize that no no no one is a bit over this that one is nicer lebron is local that's where your problem was is no no no that's exactly what we must we must keep this side of the mentality in terms of the city we would one government with true serious as one government response. whether the new national government will solve cape town's problems has yet to be seen the city has had to take on the task of finding new sources of water something which ought to be financed by the national government. so the

3 temperately set a nation plan so basically complete we've got to be providing water into the system or working on a way to reuse the city and that will. see a yield being put into the system towards the end of this financial the new financial year and the drilling into aquifers are continuing and already generating some water. these new investments and water management have to be paid for under zuma corrupt officials plundered state coffers now keep tony and have to foot the bill but they feel they aren't being given a say in policy making. when the edgy government at the local level and the prevention able to clear this is a crisis strongly pushed for. this to become a disaster. under the conditions of

a disaster the normal procedures of checks and balances are in moved so this is a patient in these decision making is removed so that now where you would have on an application for desalination plants for example would go through certain checks and balances we citizens are part of the decision making those days and comment and i haven't they say this because of the drought because they indicated disaster those rights of taking away. the 3 small desalination plants were set up hastily for a lot of money critics say the use of huge amounts of energy but only provide 2 percent of daily water demand. climate changes altering global rainfall patterns higher latitudes in the tropics are expected to get wet or moderate latitudes and already arid regions will get

drier cape town's municipal officials have recognised that surface water will no longer be sufficient for the growing city. now they're asking scientists whose warnings went unheeded for years to come up with quick solutions. minute short notice we got a message that the mayor is coming to visit a drilling so i said she would really like to see drilling in particular because she would like to see water coming out of the ground at that stage we had no conflict with gorillas in place but we have learned that when the fire wants to take a picture of something you'll make it happen so we have to ask a drilling company to take a little bit of risk if they could really regard because they work through that they call the wall and by the fire the mayor arrived we took a picture and there was water coming out of.

the messy phone as the table mountain group has a number of manmade reservoirs but these dams are just a drop in the bucket. hundreds of meters down below the masses of gray sandstone are billions of cubic meters of crystal clear water in natural groundwater aquifers these fossil water sources are being explored as a possible solution to keep towns drinking water problems. the bore hole here is already 850 meters deep and there's still no trace of groundwater . but ya know that's a lot of years can be very. i can see the idea here if you don't get water in the ball your heads are not off a lot so. this is like a seed expiration so you then you killed me through rationing any you need we're

going to find out what's on the ground when you drill so you know. the problem is that the deep groundwater is not replenished rapidly it's too much is taken out the depleted water table will sink with potentially serious consequences for plant and animal life. any activity like this is an effect i think we have to be honest about that but it's grabbed water. twice or removed if you are developing a water resource is going to get impact but quite clearly we don't have a choice in terms of holding resilience for the future of. a grand order is an important thought but over martin green is a true drought in terms of its size. cape town is not alone with these problems half of the earth's population is already grappling with water shortages cities from sao paulo to los angeles make headlines when they nearly run

out of water and the scarcity can't necessarily be attributed to climate change wasteful water use is another factor. while the scientists hunt for solutions affluent keep toni and her providing for themselves to keep water in their swimming pool but avoid being identified as wasters online and the tribe it's paid for the installation of their own borehole. this is basically warhol. goes on 227 meters and so far we're getting good water formats we've had water tested in a local lab we've just actually received the results now we've got a full transient specialist having a look giving us advice on watchful transient system to install which will then get linked up to the house so that the goal is also likely to be completely off the grid with regards to to water so currently we're using it to talk about swimming

pool in. summer. and then. once a week once every 2 weeks we give the water. you've gotten some water. there are around 40000 private boreholes in cape town not even the experts can say what long term effects they will have on the environment. i come up with for the most ability. they are not able to wind the service and you take. the. money in the water. so all. the problem. those who can afford it can drill they don't even need a license a private borehole costs around 10000 euros capital always move and the rich people . will only be inconvenienced for

a very short period of time and then they will go there to central by all or somewhere else again now that you go to someplace that i think a critical lesson for me was how the city is messaging and communication in words and unfolded over this time and some of that created mistrust and misgivings and cause citizens to almost recoil in building their own independence of water systems we need to treat our water as a community common service and good and therefore we're all in this together and rates and taxes for instance and revenue collection crucial to making that system function. the more wealthy residents leave the municipal system the less money flows into city coffers and the more pressure there is on the socially disadvantaged.

when you get what a cute water scarcity it made wasn't it professionally underneath so that's what you see in south africa so the acute disparity in income between the acts being magnified south africa is a highly an equal society from the wealthiest people living in down some the highest in really state in the world. adjacent some of the poorest of the poor eking out an existence and very financially published and published in terms of hope in terms of speech for a better life than just lucked into the poverty trap. vale a move to cape town 8 years ago hoping for a better life she ended up in cairo leecher one of south africa's poorest townships the houses here have no toilets or running water dozens of families share a tap at the height of the crisis some of them were turned off to safe water.

into mines now that there's no what. i thought will try this and i will tell you i find all of that. in full month if not more than what. the public toilets in khayelitsha are no longer provided with water for flushing so many residents go to the waste dump to relieve themselves. in one of my many child friend. who went to with other kids to the bush. there was someone waiting for that little tale had the other kids saw that person saw he was about to rape a child. a children show to that person and they called people who saw the people. the 3rd

person turn away is sure it's not safe because that person is not quite yet c. 32 year old has been looking for a job for years in vain. she 103 sons live with her cousin and her 2 sons in a tiny tin shack for 7 of them share 8 square metres. the children's fathers have abandoned them that's not unusual in this neighborhood. the children are a source of income for families in the townships. and her cousin receive

a total of $100.00 euros a month for the 5 children. in the event of daisy the scenario in which cape town runs out of water the 2 women could only hope that the government would jump in and help more effectively than it seems to be doing now. now with the same days it'll be next year. i'm stressing over these days it will cause i witnessed this and i don't know how we're going to deal with why he said with a 0. sum imagine people dying of thirst 200 comes that's an unlikely scenario but the danger of social unrest or infectious diseases due to water scarcity is more real. since the start of the drought more and more patients have come to this township

hospital with hygiene related conditions. vale is youngest son has had skin problems for weeks. the medical examination is free but not very low can't afford the medication the clinic recommends. and even though the nurse knows about her patient situation her well meaning advice has little to do with the reality of life in the township. i didn't tell but i've been with the baby child 2 times a day in the morning and in the evening and have him change clothes frequently or do you get what i'm saying for example if he baits in the evening and wears clean clothes he shouldn't wear that again tomorrow night so that he does not repeat the same coach. because when he scratches all that remains in those clothes so he must

wear new clean clothes. because they didn't. include any. since the threat of daisy roll emerged all of south africa has been concerned about cape town but in the car of a semi desert just a few 100 kilometers away an equally dramatic scenarios developing. hundreds of farm workers in the town of sutherland are fighting for their livelihoods analysts estimate that the drought and the water crisis are costing the farming sector 300000 jobs. in. south africa's biggest aid organization has stepped in to assist the drought stricken farmers although the government ought to help it's the gift of the givers foundation that is providing relief in the form of groceries and fodder for the livestock. the farmers in this region provide

a 3rd of south africa's meat supply and produce the world famous car a lamb. the problems of the sutherland farmers and danger food security in the whole country. so they did go looking for long term growth but what i had all for new grazing i didn't cry while the great thing about taking place they don't want to believe if you like. many of the large scale farms in this area have been family go on for generations but most of them are now facing ruin. gift of the givers. has already provided 6000000 euros worth of aid donations too little to avert tragedy for the farmers. and if you want to but if you can help get you to respond to all of us with it except that he has a family it's not like industry you know it's in stock you can start and stop but

just builds but in 5 hours but you can't do sheep farming in 5 hours you know you need water you need the right with the grass to grow it's something dependent on each an environment which can not be dissipated like you know it's been. the lack of rainfall isn't the only problem the farmers can't get any more water from their boreholes the ngo also helps to drill new holes for desperate farmers. it's 1400000 hits days of land where all the boards started to dry up now the water table has dropped from 24 mm meet this average to around about 80 meters now and so the entire project is massive in terms of the money needed to actually get down to the meters for the $200.00 borders that we need

to do to do be successful with. default ready trilled 35 holes 26 of them successfully. number 36 also strikes water. look. if. we see a massive problem coming really breeds of sheep that is being breed over hundreds of years you know with the sheep they can handle these situations but if we saw. these bridge we're going to be some of the biggest wool producing sheep in the wool and some of the meat producing she.

was pronounced they were only looking at drinking water and they were only looking at water for human consumption they were not looking at water to sustain the economy and they were not looking at water for food production. in south western cape town farmers are also worried they have water supplies for the moment because they can tap into the city. but they are far from secure. the want a crisis for me is not a crisis about water it's a crisis management. is a scare tactic. fall. to hand over our right. to the

city and the problem. with his p.h.a. food in farming campaign maziar sunday is fighting to preserve the philippine horticultural area a swathe of. land that has been farmed for centuries and beneath the 3000 hector area lies a gigantic awkward for. the small and medium sized farms here produce at least a 3rd of cape town's vegetables they employ $6000.00 workers mainly women from the surrounding townships. now the city has announced plans to replace this bread basket with housing and industrial space. private investors are already in place the area is especially attractive not least thanks to its water. but the farmers say they won't give up without a fight the cooperative is suing the city over the development plans some see the

conflict as an example of the broader question of how cape town intends to use its resources in the future. here's saying we want. to say to us. what is more important. actually still sued and water and it can environment for the city of many people the city of cape town or. the privatization of that there's a section of that to the benefit of a few develop us. the answer might seem obvious but a quarter of a century after its revolution south africa is still a deeply divided society with many different interests. do you solve poverty by giving poor people free water or do you solve poverty by giving poor people jobs. that's a philosophical question asked for from

a suffered human side effect that if you give water free water to poor people you create the payment she understood and that of course what the african national congress says that. more than half the world's population now lives in cities many of the existential risks connected with climate change are concentrated in urban centers and threaten the social fabric. one such risk is growing water scarcity. from a full look for me it feels that water is going to be. dying then that's what. it's going to be like. we didn't have to be in this place today and i if there is dead listen to people like us then you've been one who had this they. didn't have as well the crisis now without us but we wouldn't have this crisis. to cope with global warming and growing

populations cities have to prepare for the unexpected cape town has realized that not only new and different water sources will help protect it from drought long term whether it's desalination. waste water recycling. or drilling into aquifers there will be damage to the environment the impact of climate change is multi-faceted. however the case of cape town and its day 0 scenario also shows that water scarcity is not just due to missing rainfall and that governments would do well to listen to scientists about where water supplies can come from instead of playing political games. politics must stay out of order. if you don't want us don't have what he doesn't ask you to which political party you belong to so we must keep politics out of what we can't make war to

a political football the reality is that water is an infinitely renewable resource and a planetary level the crisis of planetary level where the world population is outstripping its of its supply of fresh water and this reactor as a species solve that problem in the future of this homo sapiens as a species is not for any good either then it's also embodied in the daisy or narrative. in a globalized world in the throes of climate change water is an increasingly precious resource and that affects all of us a warning from south africa. climate

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